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by d0 13y ago
FileValult problems: http://mjtsai.com/blog/2012/08/07/filevault-2s-apple-id-back... AFAIK they don't login to fix hardware issues -- they netboot diagnostics software but on multiple occasions I wa
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by d0 13y ago
Moral of the story: don't deal with the Apple Store. The amount of people I know who have had their data trashed (after possibly being cloned) is quite high. The solution to most problems is wipe the machine. They usually come to me af
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by d0 13y ago
Not if you disconnect the camera and mic. Bit of a pain to do on an iMac but easy on an MBP (pre-Retina).
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by d0 13y ago
Hep I have one of them. 2.7GHz i7 with 16Gb of RAM just sitting here rotting because it's unreliable and unsaleable.
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by d0 13y ago
I got that bit :)
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by d0 13y ago
WTF? Is this another http://www.zombo.com
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by d0 13y ago
This is true of GC in all languages. Many a time I've seen people shrug off issues as "GC will handle it" in C# projects. Usually accompanied with the sound of many a developer crying whilst trying to work out what has gone w
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by d0 13y ago
Look at most of Europe after the second world war, particularly after the soviets pillaged everything.
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by d0 13y ago
Yes probably. Someone has to say it though and it's only an adaptation of the motivation and procedure of declaring war. It's exactly the same conversation people have before they invade a country so to be taken up on this would b
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by d0 13y ago
Oh I agree entirely with you there. Forget the words bloatware, outsourcers and money for a minute... Surprisingly it's rarely the core products of the companies that are problematic. It's usually the army of consultants and cash
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by d0 13y ago
Likewise I don't understand your POV -- in fact I think you're spouting rubbish much as most advocates seem to. I've been dealing with Windows, Linux and BSD systems for 20 years and there's really not much in it betwee
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by d0 13y ago
Yes we apply updates after testing them . MS11-100 was the only breaking change we've had in 10 years and we picked that up in test no problems at all and knew about it as we read about it before applying the patch in the KB article t
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by d0 13y ago
This is precisely why I recently trashed my last few Linux machines and moved them over to FreeBSD. Well to be honest it was because it's absolutely tiresome not having a cohesive well documented system to rely on without the politics
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by d0 13y ago
I disagree. The 400-odd Windows machines under my command are incredibly stable, reliable and well performing. It's not Windows 98 any more.
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by d0 13y ago
Well it's fairly easy. Stop people consuming. Consuming is the oil that keeps the cogs turning. Choosing where to consume doesn't change a thing. It just shifts the power balance from one set of corporations to another. Each of th
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by d0 13y ago
At least windows has a decent and stable init system though!
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by d0 13y ago
You might want to take a look at FreeBSD's init and process management stuff. It's very clean, tidy, well engineered and doesn't involve sysvinit.
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by d0 13y ago
Very manifesto-ish. It's almost like I'm reading the words of the wolf. If we really want to protest against say, monitoring, then we should be building free tools for people to easily move their email away from GMail or building
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by d0 13y ago
And a way to reliably inflict financial consequence is through business and technology That's just another way that legislation allows stuff to be manipulated. Why do you think legislators are always all over business and technology?
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by d0 13y ago
What would be the point of sending mail to representatives that don't represent you any more? At best it's a Monty-pythonesque nod to the system that got us here in the first place. "I'll write a stern letter" or &q
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by d0 13y ago
A million upvotes if I could. I didn't actually consider that last point. That has effectively killed DO for me instantly from a risk point of view and I'm going to immediately migrate my two machines off it. Literally it's 2
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by d0 13y ago
They need to keep on top of existing demand as well and start running over-capacity. Not joking but it's pretty long wait to get an instance up in a preferred DC sometimes which is putting a lot of us off the platform.
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by d0 13y ago
Surprisingly this is actually really interesting. Nice to see OS/2 in there!
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by d0 13y ago
Perhaps I'm sick in the mind but I really like debugging, especially hard ones. Recently our stack fell over when we did a production release. Basically web worker threads were spawning more worker threads and this crashed our AOP prox
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by d0 13y ago
the old keys are deleted safely Assuming nothing has managed to redirect those unlinks for example...
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by d0 13y ago
I'm a FreeBSD and Windows person so yes you are right. sysvinit dependency management is horrible as well so I cannot complain about your point there.
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by d0 13y ago
To be fair, he does kick them down regularly on a lot of stuff. C# is one of the better bits of the Microsoft ecosystem.
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by d0 13y ago
Actually I invented some technology that does this that we're using in production. Full two way integration between browsers and desktop and mobile apps. No plugins required as well. And it wasn't a hard problem to solve.
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by d0 13y ago
I'm saying that the dependency on the network being up is bad for services. An example of a bad case: if the network interface is hotplugged or down and you're running Redis, do you want it to restart and have to drag the entire A
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by d0 13y ago
It needs to do neither of those as well.

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